This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19. They said Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 that genetic tests show a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d previously been infected with in March. (NIAID/National Institutes of Health via AP)

CONCORD – The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 358 new positive test results for COVID-19 Monday and the death of a man from Coos County who was older than 60.

Check number of COVID-19 cases by school every day. Under the “show” pull down and click “schools with cases.” https://www.nh.gov/covid19/dashboard/schools.htm. You can also download the community transmission level map there.

The daily PCR test positivity rate was 4.3%. Today’s results include 193 people who tested positive by PCR test and 165 who tested positive by antigen test. There are now 3,344 current COVID-19 cases diagnosed in New Hampshire.

Several cases are still under investigation. Additional information from ongoing investigations will be incorporated into future COVID-19 updates. Of those with complete information, there are sixty-four individuals under the age of 18 and the rest are adults with 48% being female and 52% being male. The new cases reside in Rockingham (75), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (48), Merrimack (34), Strafford (26), Cheshire (17), Belknap (12), Carroll (7), Grafton (7), Sullivan (7), and Coos (5) counties, and in the cities of Manchester (66) and Nashua (40). The county of residence is being determined for fourteen new cases.

Community-based transmission continues to occur in the State and has been identified in all counties. Of those with complete risk information, most of the cases have either had close contact with a person with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis or are associated with an outbreak setting.

There are currently 74 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 15,029 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed with 817 (5%) of those having been hospitalized.